PR BEKASI – Scientists are planning to revive the mammoth that has been around for a long time extinct like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
Colossal, a biotech company, has now set aside $15 million to revive mammoths in the tundra. Arctic.
The company’s geneticists want to restore a species that died about 4,000 years ago to help preserve modern species on the brink of extinction.
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To achieve this goal, Colossal has partnered with scientists at Harvard University, USA.
That’s according to Ben Lamm, who is the co-founder and chief executive of Colossa.
He said humans had not previously been able to harness the power of this technology to rebuild ecosystems, heal our Earth, and preserve its future through a population of animals that extinct.
“Not only will we bring mammoths back to life, we will use our technology to help conserve this threatened species extinct,” he said, quoted Pikiranrakyat-Bekasi.com from Express, Wednesday, September 15, 2021.
“We will also restore animals where humans have had a hand in their deaths,” he added.
The project is led by Dr George Church, a world-renowned geneticist and pioneer in genome sequencing.
For the past 800 years, mammoths have roamed the prairies of North America, Russia, Europe, and Arctic.
Scientists estimate the ancestral species of elephants extinct about 4,000 years ago.
Colossal aims to bring mammoths back by creating genetic hybrids from DNA mamut and the Asian elephant genome.
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Company scientists will collect DNA mamut they are from very well-preserved mammoth specimens found in the Siberian ice sheet.
Earlier this year, an international team of researchers discovered teeth mamut more than one million years old.
Mammoth and Asian elephants share about 99.6 percent of their DNA, making them the perfect match for attempting hybrid sequencing.
Colossal itself will use technology such as CRISPR to achieve their goals.
“The technology discovered in pursuit of this grand vision of living creatures walking like mammoths could create very significant opportunities in conservation,” said Dr George Church.
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This is not the first time scientists have announced their intention to bring mammoths back from the dead.
Just three years ago a Russian company told the world that the species that extinct can be resurrected in a decade.
A team of scientists from Russia, Japan and South Korea were given the green light by local authorities in the Yakutia region of Siberia, Russia to try mammoth cloning.
However, the plan ran into several hurdles and had to be discontinued.
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